"Only the Paranoid Survive"

Social profiles project - only the strong survive

Results from interview study The interviews showed that you must be resourceful to be able to navigate the welfare systems, as one mother said: ‘only the strong survive’. The core problems in the health care sector were described as challenges not being taken seriously, difficulties in being diagnosed and referred to the right specialists. Lack of coordination and overview are key problems for ...

Paranoid? Who Says I'm Paranoid?

The Paranoid Patient

I he paranoid patient suffers deeply from pervasive feelings of being mistreated and misunderstood, hypervigilance, and an acute sensitivity to real or imagined slights. He is suspicious of other people's motives and may distrust those he loves most or to whom he is most attached. This patient harbors simmering anger and grudges toward those he feels may have deceived him or taken unfair advant...

Loneliness and the Paranoid Syndrome.

PARANOID reactions of various types are commonly found in women of late middle age or early senility. Baugh 1 described the prognosis of such cases as hopeless. He found that the patients had previously been indecisive, anxious, impressionable, touchy, scrupulous, introspective, self-satisfied and reticent before the first and final attack of insanity, and he believed that heredity was present ...

Neuropsychological Assessment in Patients with Paranoid and Non-Paranoid Schizophrenia

Amaç: Şizofrenide bilişsel bozulmalar şizofreninin değişik belirti alt tipleriyle bağlantılıdır. Paranoid tip şizofrenide bilişsel işlevlerin daha iyi korunduğu öne sürülmüştür. Bu çalışmada, nöropsikolojik ölçümlerin, paranoid şizofreni hastalarını paranoid olmayanlardan ayrıştırıp ayrıştırmadığının değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Yöntemler: Bu çalışmaya DSM-IV ölçütlerine göre 26 paranoid ti...